well, apparently yes, you can. if you re one of the people who likes an early jump on it in january or february, you will not be able to because of what happened during the long tax debate on capitol hill, the irs is not prepared, they say, and they frankly can t go i have you a date certain when they will be prepared, take at least as many weeks to be able to go through people who itemize their deductions and they don t have those in place, because it too so long on capitol hill. looking at an estimated 50 million americans who itemize their deductions, although not many of them file early. the lesson here is do not get things done early, procrastinate people. why do today, what you can put off till tomorrow and how many of you can file early or itemize deductions and they say about 9 million taxpayers, 140 million about 6% of tax paying citizens get those in early and itemize them and i guess you re going to have to hang on, clayton, you re probably an early filer who
and doug schoen. they recognize that americans have grown more skeptical about global warming. and the numbers from 71% to 56% believing in it, indicating the degree of skepticism is growing and i think that s the result of a free and fair debate that s been held in the public arena about what constitutes global waing, is it happening and what indeed are the climatic conditions we re facing. i think that s to the good and that s healthy. i m agnostic because i think the science is unclear and we do better legislating after we know the fact rather than legislating based on ideology based on facts or opinions masquerading as facts. and yet, senator, nasa put out a statement, saying that 2010 was the hottest year on record. so, obviously, something is being lost in the pr campaign, should scientists be doing more. well, that, by the way, to
a few scattered showers across the area of florida, georgia and eastern seaboard, but it s going to be light. this big storm that brought all the severe weather, it s tapering off now and behind it, some cooler air once again. across the west, very heavy rain in across central and southern california for today, we ll see more mountain snow in the sierra nevadas and cold conditions across the plains, a bit of a clipper system moving in, light snow across the dakotas and towards minnesota and chicago area as well. take a look at your forecast for the day on monday, temperature-wise, shaping up like this, cooling down across parts of the northeast and lake effect snow. speaking snow and ice, dave and clayton, what s going on. thanks, rick. lots of ice here, last year the story of a marine stationed home in afghanistan and couldn t make it for christmas and the family wasn t going to spend the holiday without him and in his place, sent an ice sculpture of himself to his family and they
soldiers in the third army. well, the rest of course is history. good weather ensued and general patton was victorious over the germans, but with today s politically correct climate would something like that ever be allowed to happen? best selling author of religion and american culture, steven, good morning. good morning, how are you? we re well, so that s an incredible story, i mean, now, obviously, people are so sensitive to the separation of church and state, would a general be allowed to handout prayers on cards to 250,000 soldiers asking them all to pray? i m sure he d get some flak, but he could do it today. the fact is that the military is an unusual environment. we actually pay clergymen within the military. give them a state check, so to speak to do religion and be chaplains and to speak of god in terms of the warrior life. and general petraeus or high
i got a, a blanket with a logo on it, and i got a phone card, cd, and ended up getting a card from my wife, and there s some other little hygiene stuff in there that i ve gotten. and private first class, what did you receive from your wife? well, my wife and my son, they put a real nice note on the box for me and you know, it s just nice to see the, you know, the love and effort that came in the package, nice. and sergeant meyers what did you receive? and how important was it for you to receive these incredible gifts from home, to have that connection during the christmas holiday? well, i had received each one of my sons had put an individual card in there for me, you know, basically right